Mary Wollstonecraft : a biography

by Eleanor Flexner

Paper Book, 1973

Status

Available

Genres

Publication

Baltimore : Penguin, 1973.

Description

This book shows the transformation of an intelligent, high-strung girl into the first great advocate of female liberation, whose advanced ideas about woman's rights and education were more than a hundred years ahead of their time.

User reviews

LibraryThing member JenniferRobb
For some reason, I kept confusing this subject with the lady who wrote Frankenstein--they are not the same as far as I can tell. Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for writing "A Vindication of Rights". This biography starts out with Mary's birth and childhood which were somewhat interesting, but
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 once she gets into her writing stage, the biography style switched to a more academic style and was harder for me to want to read.
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Subjects

Authors, English 18th century Biography
Feminists Great Britain Biography
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

Language

English

Original publication date

1972

Physical description

307 p.; 20 cm

ISBN

014003773X / 9780140037739

Local notes

biography

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